Reading for Sept. 30th

Hi. Your reading assignment for this weekend is to read this and the handout from Alain De Botton's Consolations Of Philosophy (which you will pick up in class tomorrow).

Instead of a precis, you will write a story. Notice how both of these readings tell the story (life story to an extent) of two different people in order to make a point. Your assignment is to mimic this. Write a story--about a person you know, or don't know, but know a lot about--in order to make a point about life, politics, etc.

Study how each of these stories tells its story, and how dialogue, point of view and character all play a part in that telling. Look at the author's use of pathos. This could evolve into something you use in your researched argument so have at it.

Due: 10/2/08, 2-3 pages.

Just In Case

Here is the Fast Food Nation reading. Schlosser, Eric. "On The Ranch," . Perennial. 2002. Pgs. 133-147.